Chapter 11: The Heels of Mercury

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​⁠This injunction Gwenna carried out to the letter a week later. Never had she looked so pretty as when she smiled at her own reflection in her bedroom mirror above the cherub's ruff of wings on the evening of the dance.

It was given by some wealthy theatrical people whose "set" often intermingled with that to which Hugo Swayne belonged. And it was held in a couple of big marquees that had been set u